What is Web Finder LE?

 

Anyone who has spent long enough on the Internet will realise that while it is a great new media, it's also a highly disorgansied jungle of information. Trying to find what you want on the net can be a time consuming affair, that can also cost some people more money.

Are you sick of having to wait while eaither Navigator or Internet Explorer loads up a page full of Internet search engines only to find the search engine you like to use is not there? Are you sick of having to load up a search engine's main page just to do a search? What happens if that search engine doesn't return any useful results? What then? Can you remember the URL of all the other Search engines? Are you happy with your bookmark list clogged up with search engine links? Surely there must be an easier method... Well there is!

Web Finder LE is the freeware lite edition of our popular Web Finder utility. A tool that uses Internet search engines to find the information you want, displaying the results in a browser of your choice. With Web Finder LE you will be able to retrieve results in approximatly half to a quater of the time it would have taken you to perform the task through a browser.

But that is only for starters, Web Finder's plugin approach allows you to add more plugins that add more search engines to Web Finder LE. And if there's a specific search engine that you like to use that Web Finder LE doesn't already come with then you can use Web Finder Factory LE which will allow you to create your own plugins, quickly and effortlessly.

Web Finder LE comes with a set of 27 plugins for searching the Web, news files, mac archives, mac related sites, usenet groups and more.

All in all Web Finder LE should help you to search smarter, not harder.

Information on the full version of Web Finder is included in this package.


What's new in version 4:

 

Web Finder 4 LE is a complete overhaul of the program. There are many new improvements and regardless of whether your new to Web Finder or not we would recommend reading through this manual before using it. We recommend that previous users of Web Finder atleast skim through the 'Web Finder Basics' section and read all of 'Settings and Customisation' and 'Web Finder Plugins'.

The first thing any previous user of Web Finder should notice is the great new Interface, which is much more slim line and unobtrusive.

A new Plugin format that is dramaticly faster than the previous one. Combine this with the fact that MacOS 8.5 will have a PPC native AppleScript, and users should be able to have a large amount of plugins installed with minimal loading times!

The size of the recent menu is now customisable.

New "Browser Toggling" feature that allows users to toggle, on the fly, which browser will be used to display the search results. This new feature will allow users of MacOS 7.5 or later to run Web Finder LE, as long as AppleScript 1.1.2 is installed.

New Window option allows users to force the browser to display the search results in a new window

A new and updated standard set of plugins.

 


System Requirements:

MacOS V7.5 or later

AppleScript

700Kb of free RAM

A Web Browser;

  • Netscape Navigator/Communicator 2.0 or later
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0 or later
  • Apple Cyberdog 2.0 or later

 

For MacOS 8 or later users:

If you want Web Finder LE to use the 'default browser' function of the OS then you must have installed the ''Internet Scripting' scripting addition; a version of Internet Config; and have set up your Internet preferences correctly.

To set up your default browser properly, run the "Internet Access" installer found on your MacOS 8 CD, it will install the "Internet Scripting" scripting addition, Internet Access extension and Internet Config which is needed to set up and change your default web browser.


Distribution and Fees:

Web Finder LE is Freeware!

Web Finder LE may be freely distributed on all bulletin boards, the Internet, Commercial CD's, and bundled software packages so long as it distributed in it's original archive containing all components that have not been edited in any way. I would like to hear from anyone who finds this utility useful or has any suggestions to improve it.